eye-watering
adjective
painful or extremely unpleasant
eye-wateringly
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a word derived from
eye-watering.
Example Sentences
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The podcast, I’m afraid, is eye-wateringly boring—void of a single revelatory moment.
From Slate ● Dec. 18, 2025
After decades of ballooning costs and production delays, the most powerful space observatory ever built launched on Christmas 2021 before beginning an eye-wateringly delicate unfolding process in the depths of space.
From Scientific American ● Dec. 13, 2022
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt is due to deliver an autumn budget on 17 November, but has already warned of "eye-wateringly difficult decisions".
From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2022
Its “cucumber mustard seeds salad” is eye-wateringly sour and topped with bristles of chili thread, also unpleasantly burny.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 24, 2022
“For anyone not interested in food, it would have been eye-wateringly boring,” Blunt said in an email of their gastronomic conversations.
From New York Times ● Oct. 2, 2021
